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Reaching People in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings with Immunization Services

Engaging vulnerable communities—including refugees, migrants, and displaced people—in the design of immunization programs can improve trust in disease-prevention measures, reach global goals regarding access to immunizations, and protect health security. 

Brief by Katherine E. Bliss and Mackenzie Burke — March 10, 2023

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Senior Fellow and Director, Immunizations and Health Systems Resilience, Global Health Policy Center

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Coronavirus Crisis Update

Dr. Scott Rivkees, former Florida Secretary of Health: What happened behind the scenes?

Dr. Scott Rivkees served under Governor DeSantis as Florida’s Surgeon General and Secretary of Health for 27 months during the pandemic, in what became a rocky political experience.  Behind the scenes, what was he able to achieve, in serving Florida’s 67 counties, and in particular, in protecting seniors, managing schools, setting early vaccine priorities? 

Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — February 9, 2023

CSIS Coronavirus Crisis Update

American Democracy and Pandemic Security: Strengthening the U.S. Pandemic Response in a Free Society

Policymakers must take a bipartisan approach to evaluate and reduce the impact of pandemics on society, harvest local learnings from Covid-19, and empower individuals, communities, and states to transcend partisan divides and improve the response to future health threats. 

Report by CSIS Global Health Policy Center , Brown University Pandemic Center , and COVID Collaborative — February 9, 2023

Coronavirus Crisis Update

Dr. Chris Murray, IHME, "…we are in for a harder spell…”

As part of our series on China post-COVID-19, Chris Murray reflects on where things stand, almost two months after President Xi threw off Zero-Covid controls.

Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison and H. Andrew Schwartz — February 2, 2023

CSIS Coronavirus Crisis Update
Coronavirus Crisis Update

Dr. Scott Kennedy, CSIS: “Give us our lives back!”

In our continued series on China post-Zero Covid, Dr. Scott Kennedy recounts the revelations from his six weeks in Beijing and Shanghai in late 2022, and reflects on what has transpired–societally, politically, medically—since President Xi suddenly threw off the Zero Covid controls in early December. What is the toll for not preparing for the colossal peak of Covid? What will be made of a “crisis of confidence” that the government must face, and that is going to hurt? What can we expect in the spring in terms of normalization?

Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison and Scott Kennedy — January 26, 2023

CSIS Coronavirus Crisis Update

Battling Biological Threats: Complacency, Progress, or Both?

The elevation of health security within recent national security policies and bipartisan legislative action proves that it remains possible to bridge divides and make measurable progress to prepare the United States for inevitable future biological threats. 

Commentary by Thomas Cullison and J. Stephen Morrison — January 20, 2023